Junta cancels 2020 polls results

Political message: Protesters holding up a three-finger salute during a rally of Myanmar protesters residing in Japan, outside the National Stadium, the main venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. They were protesting against the military dictatorship and the pro-junta Olympic delegate. — Reuters

The military junta cancelled the results of 2020 polls won by Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, announcing they were not “free and fair” almost six months after deposing the Nobel laureate in a coup.

Investigations had uncovered more than 11 million cases of fraud in the elections in which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) trounced the military-aligned opposition, the junta’s election commission said.